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Graduate Equivalence Relations and Partitioning in Sets
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High School Stats: Simple Weighted Means Question
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Graduate Power expansion of the Dirac Delta function?
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Undergrad Confidence intervals and range of possible values
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Graduate Can Mathematics be Translated to First-Order Language?
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High School Easy question. Sampling techniques.
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Undergrad Extrapolating Human Population to 5000 B.C
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Undergrad A good book for probability theory? Any recommendations?
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Undergrad Why is standard deviation the preferred method for measuring dispersion?
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Graduate Is it possible to calculate a binomial distribution with a non-constant p?
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Undergrad Engineering Lab: Error Calculations - Help Needed!
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Undergrad Sample space and probability measure.
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Graduate Understanding the Difference Between Open Balls and Neighborhoods
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Undergrad Proving Binomial Distribution Expected Value & Variance
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Undergrad (regression) why would you exclude an explanatory variable
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Undergrad Probability problem (came in TIFR)
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Undergrad How Many Combinations of Two Days Can Be Chosen from Seven?
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Graduate Motivation behind random variables?
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Graduate What is the paradox of guessing coin flips with probability 2/3?
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Graduate Question on Importance Sampling (Monte Carlo method)
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Undergrad Graph Isomorphisms: Understanding the Concept and Breaking Down Examples
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High School Name of the set of negative integers
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Graduate Testing multiple linear restrictions
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Graduate Finding Uncertainty in a coefficient with a Chi Squared Test
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Graduate Proof of Transcendentals Uncountable
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Undergrad Lock problem -need a mathematical proof
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Undergrad The relationship between two variables (Stats)
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Graduate Joint expectation of two functions of a random variable
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Undergrad Solving the URN Problem: Finding the Probability of Drawing a White Ball
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Graduate Convergence in measure vs Almost surely convergence
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Graduate Defining Membership Uniqueness in a Set X with One True Value
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Undergrad Probability Help: Margarine Production & Electric Toasters
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Graduate How to Obtain the Transition Probability Matrix in a Birth Death Markov Chain?
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Graduate Is the characteristic function constant everywhere if it is constant at 0?
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Graduate Measuring The RATE of Probability Change
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Graduate Determining Min & Max Slopes w/Varying STDEV
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Undergrad What is the best strategy for maximizing profits in roulette?
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Graduate Graduate Studies - Categorical Logic
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Graduate Estimating error in slope of a regression line
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Graduate Cardinality of Cartesian Product
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Graduate Does the Distribution of X + Y mod a Remain Uniform?
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Graduate Undergraduate mathematical logic questions
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Graduate Optimizing Tarrif Plans for Telephone Subscribers Based on Past Usage
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Undergrad Comparing means from SAME sample
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Graduate The terms function and map .
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Graduate Basic notation (conditional probability delim in linear equation)
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Undergrad Probability of event occurring - poisson distribution?
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Graduate When is it inappropriate to report Pearson correlation coefficients?
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Undergrad Puzzling roll X dice, choose Y highest problem
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Undergrad It seems easy, but I don't get it
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Graduate Conditional expectation of three exponential distributed r.v.
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Undergrad Statistics, Parameters, and the Central Limit Theorem
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Undergrad How to calculate compound percentage change
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Graduate Solving Problem on Set: Wayne's Question
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Graduate A Bijection from N to Q: Explicit Formula for Rational Numbers
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Graduate Can the largest describable integer in English be outdone?
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Graduate What Am I Doing Wrong with My Picture Combinations Calculation?
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Undergrad Confusion on anti-symmetric and symmetric
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Undergrad Mean centering of the covariance matrix in PCA
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Graduate Are There More Real Numbers Than Rational Numbers Without Complex Set Theory?
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Graduate Sum of 2 Non-identical Uniforms RVs?
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Graduate Does Godel's Incompleteness Theorem Apply to Fuzzy Sets?
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Graduate What Is the Distribution of Population Multiplicities in Countries?
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High School Symbol for Removing an Element from a Set: What Is It?
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Graduate MLE, Uniform Distribution, missing data
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Undergrad Learn How to Calculate Var(Y) and Var(Y2) with Statistics Equation Help"
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Undergrad How To Calculate Range of Values Of A Random Variable (Binomially Distributed)
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Graduate Roll 14 dice, take the highest 7
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Graduate The probability as an absolut value of the square of the amplitude
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Undergrad Setting Up Probability for Casting Concrete: E1, E2, and E3 Events Defined
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Undergrad Checking Triangle Inequality for List Similarity Metric
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Graduate Understanding the Semantics of Lambda Calculus
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Graduate A question on the interpretation of randomness in algorithmic information theory
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Undergrad Calculating Split Percentages for Double Deck Pinochle - Expert Help Needed
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Graduate Coin tossing -extended version-
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Undergrad What Does \bar{\in} Symbol Mean?
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Graduate Abstract/Discrete/Algebraic Mathematics.
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Undergrad Chebyshevs theorem : find k so that at most 10%
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Graduate Cross correlation in two data sets of the same sample population
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Undergrad Probability of 15+ Consecutive Heads Over 40 Coin Tosses
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High School Set Theory and Circumference of a Circle
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Undergrad Equalising Final available quantity-demand percentage for all stores
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Undergrad Solve Probability Questions: Find E[X], E[2^X], & More
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High School Noob needs help understanding what is an axiom.
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Undergrad Calculate odds ratio and fisher's exact text
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Graduate Is Calculating Variance Reduction in PCA Accurate?
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Undergrad What is the Probability of Your MarioKart Wii Track Being Chosen?
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Graduate What is the connection between sequence of sets and sequence of functions?
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Undergrad PCAT Variance Qs: Range of Scores & Similar Mean Values?
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Graduate Proving Variance of t Distribution
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Undergrad Probability : Dependent Events
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Graduate Actual and potential infinities
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Graduate What is the non-lattice definition of non-lattice?
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Undergrad What is the Cardinality of Sets X, Y, and A, B, C?
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Undergrad Find Number of Permutations of 2D Numbers Constrained by Sum n
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Undergrad Statistics on games, how do you know if it is fair?
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Undergrad Proving linearity of a function
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Graduate What Are the Conditions for Prob(wx + y < c) ≈ Prob(wx < c) as w → ∞?
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Undergrad How to Calculate Crime Probability Using Poisson and Binomial Distributions?
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Undergrad Is there a better way to evaluate stability in simulated cellular automata?
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